Comments on: Is it always a gaffe… http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Idaho http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-4175 Idaho Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:36:40 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/#comment-4175 Yes, Exactly...It was just a bit presumptuous of him to assume he was the "only" journalist embedded who happened to also be a reservist. I do agree with Lacey's thesis though...that the military hasn't handled the information war well at all. And if Rumsfeld recognizes the problem and has mentioned it now in a couple different forums (speeches, news conferences, etc.), then I am looking forward to the changes that must surely be coming. I hope. Yes, Exactly…It was just a bit presumptuous of him to assume he was the “only” journalist embedded who happened to also be a reservist.

I do agree with Lacey’s thesis though…that the military hasn’t handled the information war well at all. And if Rumsfeld recognizes the problem and has mentioned it now in a couple different forums (speeches, news conferences, etc.), then I am looking forward to the changes that must surely be coming. I hope.

]]> By: FbL http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-4174 FbL Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:24:42 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/#comment-4174 And of course, how could I forget Michael Yon! And of course, how could I forget Michael Yon!

]]> By: FbL http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-4173 FbL Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:24:24 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/#comment-4173 Idaho, there are many others. Just off the top of my head, there's Greg Palkott of Fox News who was embedded in the beginning of the Iraq war and has been back a few times, I think. And Ralph Peters has been going out on missions with the U.S. military in Baghdad lately. I know there are more... Idaho, there are many others. Just off the top of my head, there’s Greg Palkott of Fox News who was embedded in the beginning of the Iraq war and has been back a few times, I think. And Ralph Peters has been going out on missions with the U.S. military in Baghdad lately. I know there are more…

]]> By: Idaho http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-4168 Idaho Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:21:25 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/#comment-4168 I think it has to do partly with the quick news cycle....Today's journalists only tell us what they see right in front of them....they don't make time to look left, right, or behind. I'm not making an excuse for them, I'm just saying...I find myself reminding my momma, because she wants to believe the news she watches is giving her the whole story, but we know they're not.... Anyway, the main reason I wanted to post here, was because in Lacey's piece in Proceedings, he claimed to be the only embedded jounalist who was also military. I think that claim shows his BIG EGO, because I think Greg Kelly, embedded with 3ID, was also a military ID-card carrying journalist also.... I think it has to do partly with the quick news cycle….Today’s journalists only tell us what they see right in front of them….they don’t make time to look left, right, or behind. I’m not making an excuse for them, I’m just saying…I find myself reminding my momma, because she wants to believe the news she watches is giving her the whole story, but we know they’re not….

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to post here, was because in Lacey’s piece in Proceedings, he claimed to be the only embedded jounalist who was also military. I think that claim shows his BIG EGO, because I think Greg Kelly, embedded with 3ID, was also a military ID-card carrying journalist also….

]]> By: tblubrd http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-4167 tblubrd Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:04:38 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/#comment-4167 Wait! Wait! Did you say "a moment of soul searching" by the media? Bwahahahaha! Lex, you are SOOO funny! hehehehehe Wait! Wait!
Did you say “a moment of soul searching” by the media?

Bwahahahaha!

Lex, you are SOOO funny! hehehehehe

]]> By: Shadow http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-4159 Shadow Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:53:40 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/08/is-it-always-a-gaffe/#comment-4159 It'd be nice to see, but I don't think it will happen. As was mentioned above this bizarre fixation with Vietnam persists, both in the press and elsewhere, to the degree that many can't accept learning lessons from Vietnam and applying them to a different situation is possible for the military. I suspect that there is a desire amongst some members of the press to mold history in the fashion that they perceive the press of the Vietnam era as having done driving a sort of warped nostalgia. The protest movement seems to be the same old (literally, in many cases, I was down in Astoria last week and there seemed to be a meeting of the old hippie's home inmates in the town square) bunch. I seriously doubt that the press can push past their own self image as arbiters of truth and morality enough to seriously examine new data. It’d be nice to see, but I don’t think it will happen. As was mentioned above this bizarre fixation with Vietnam persists, both in the press and elsewhere, to the degree that many can’t accept learning lessons from Vietnam and applying them to a different situation is possible for the military. I suspect that there is a desire amongst some members of the press to mold history in the fashion that they perceive the press of the Vietnam era as having done driving a sort of warped nostalgia. The protest movement seems to be the same old (literally, in many cases, I was down in Astoria last week and there seemed to be a meeting of the old hippie’s home inmates in the town square) bunch. I seriously doubt that the press can push past their own self image as arbiters of truth and morality enough to seriously examine new data.

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